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| As shutdown of SCI Pittsburgh nears, inmates and staff move elsewhere |
| By post-gazette.com- Emily McConville |
| Published: 06/09/2017 |
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SCI Pittsburgh still looks very much like a prison. Bunks and toilets are bolted to cell walls. Inmate-painted murals cover some of the common areas. A milk carton lies on the floor in front of a cell. Signs outside tell visitors to walk through metal detectors, and posters in the cell blocks detail preventing sexual abuse. Walls encircle 10 acres of the property, though the guard towers on top haven’t been used in years. Superintendent Mark Capozza makes sure not to close doors all the way, because some of them still automatically lock. But there are no inmates at SCI Pittsburgh. The nearly 1,900 inmates who were in the prison when the state announced in January that the 135-year-old facility would close have been moved out in groups of 100 to 200 a week. The inmates housed at Pittsburgh were either transferred to other facilities, paroled, or had completed their sentences. Officer control booths have no officers; the scales and dental chairs still in the medical unit have no patients; the basketball hoops in the yards have no players. Read More. |
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